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THE PROGRAM EVALUATION STANDARDS: A Guide for Evaluators and Evaluation
Users THIRD EDITION
Donald B. Yarbrough, University of Iowa • Lyn M. Shulha, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada •
Rodney K. Hopson, Duquesne University • Flora A. Caruthers, Offi ce of Program Policy Analysis and
Government Accountability, Florida Legislature
With oversight from the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, Yarbrough, Shulha, Hopson, and
Caruthers have revised and illustrated this new edition of The Program Evaluation Standards. These thirty standards
support the core attributes of evaluation quality: utility, feasibility, propriety, accuracy, and accountability, and provide
guidance to anyone interested in planning, implementing, or using program evaluations. The book is an invaluable
resource for practicing evaluators, students, evaluation users, and clients.
CONTENTS 1. Applying the Standards / 2. The Functional Table of Standards / 3. The Standards. / 4. Utility / 5. Feasibility / 6. Propriety / 7.
Accuracy / 8. Evaluation Accountability
PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4129-8908-4 • ©2011 • 384 PAGES •
EVALUATION IN PRACTICE SERIES
Edited by Christina A. Christie and Marvin C. Alkin, these
concise, practical books offer readers the opportunity to
delve into a specifi c evaluation topic with focus, depth,
and complexity. Learn more at sagepub.com/eips.
COLLABORATIVE APPROACHES TO EVALUATION: Principles in Use
J. Bradley Cousins (Editor), University of Ottawa, Canada
Collaborative and participatory approaches to evaluation are becoming increasingly popular. To meet the needs of
evaluators seeking to implement such approaches, editor J. Bradley Cousins and colleagues implemented a multi-
phase empirical process to develop and validate a set of principles to guide collaborative approaches to evaluation.
This book outlines the principles that the team developed, and then provides case studies of how these principles have
been applied in practice. It is an invaluable supplementary text for program evaluation courses where students' projects
are focused on more collaborative and participatory approaches, and an essential resource for practicing evaluators
and those who commission program evaluations.
CONTENTS 1: Situating Evidence-based Principles to Guide Practice in Collaborative Approaches to Evaluation (CAE) / 2: The Case of the
Participatory Evaluation of Cancer Prevention and Care Services in Valle de la Estrella (Costa Rica) / 3: Promoting Learning through a Collaborative
Approach to Evaluation: A Retrospective Examination of the Process and Principles / 4: The Saafa Program for Excellence in the Sciences:
An application of the Principles to Guide Collaborative Approaches to Evaluation / 5: Toward a Better Understanding of Evaluation Use and
Collaborative Approaches: A Case Study of a School Improvement Program Evaluation / 6: Roles and Functions of the Community Manager Within
the Framework / 7: Building Capacity in Programme Practitioner Realist evaluation through application of CAE principles / 8: Comparing the validity
of two sets of evaluation principles: Adding value to both / 9: Assessing the pedagogical value of CAE principles in graduate evaluation
PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-5443-4464-5 • JULY 2019 • 256 PAGES
FACILITATING EVALUATION: Principles in Practice
Michael Quinn Patton, Utilization-Focused Evaluation
Michael Quinn Patton's Facilitating Evaluation is the fi rst book of its kind to explain in depth and detail how to
facilitate evaluation processes with stakeholders. Using the author's own stories of his experiences as an evaluation
facilitator, the book illustrates the fi ve evaluation facilitation principles that are the organizing framework for addressing
how to work with stakeholders to generate evaluation questions, make decisions among methods, interpret fi ndings,
and participate in all aspects of evaluation.
CONTENTS PART A. THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE EVALUATION FACILITATOR / 1. The Niche of Evaluation Facilitation / 2. Facilitating
Evaluation to Enhance Use / 3. Principles-Focused Evaluation Facilitation: Being Utilization-Focused with the GUIDE Framework / PART B. FIVE
EVALUATION FACILITATION PRINCIPLES / 4. Be guided by the personal factor: The First Operating Principle / 5: Engage through options: The
Second Operating Principle / 6: Observe, Interpret, and Adapt: The Third Operating Principle / 7: Embed Evaluative Thinking Throughout: The Fourth
Operating Principle / 8: Invigorate with Leading-Edge Inputs: The Fifth Operating Principle / 9: Concluding Chapter: Summary and Synthesis
PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-5063-4761-5 • ©2018 • 320 PAGES •
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